Fiction Beyond the Pale by William Trevor. An English group, Dekko, Strafe, Strafe's wife Cynthia, and Milly play bridge together, and have always spent their June holiday together in an Irish inn run by a respectable old couple named the Malseeds. Milly and Strafe have been having an affair for years. Milly is a widow who, because...

Musical Events Bay Laurels by Andrew Porter.

Books Floccinaucinihilipilificationism by Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Dancing Bounty by Arlene Croce.

Letter from Pakistan by Joseph Kraft. Former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed Apr. 4, 1979, His widow and daughter have taken over his Pakistan People's Party and become the leading figures in opposition to the man who deposed him, Gen. Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. In Feb. they launched, with leaders of eight other parties...

Fiction On with the New in France by Mavis Gallant. Seven short pieces, composed as letters to some unknown government ministry, complaining of personal situations in France after the recent election victory by the Socialist Party, led by Francois Mitterand. The first complains of hearing a woman tap her fingernails over the telephone; the second would like recorded voices of...

On and Off the Avenue FEMININE FASHIONS by Kennedy Fraser. ON AND OFF THE AVENUE about the possibilities of video for showing fashion, and the attitudes of a more visually oriented society toward fashion. It is rare to find convincing images of fashion on film or videotape. But a new market for images of fashion in video form appears to...

Comment by James Stevenson. An artist friend who lives in SoHo says he recently read an article in the Home section of the Times called "Making a Studio Feel Spacious," which said that people who live in one-room apartments in Manhattan are hiring architects, decorators, and contractors and paying between fifteen and eighteen...

The Talk of the Town Visiting Day by Stanley Mieses. Talk story about visiting day at Camp Na-Sho-Pa, in Bloomingburg, New York, a coeducational sleep-away camp attended by about 400 children, mostly from the New York metropolitan area. Many nearby camps have folded in the past few years; Na-Sho-Pa is thriving. Writer describes the scene...

The Talk of the Town Voices by Elizabeth Macklin. Talk story about visiting Tompkins Square Park on a recent Sunday to see the end of a parade and a Solidarity Fair. The long parade was a march in solidarity with the Central American and Caribbean regions. It started at 37th St. at the Salvadoran and Guatemalan Missions to the...

Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes. The month of July was darkened by the troubles that suddenly erupted in the streets as an unsettling reminder of some of the things that are not well in them. The riots were a sort of harsh crash course for bewildered citizens who believed it could not happen or trusted...

The Talk of the Town Rendezvous by James Stevenson. Illustrated Talk story about visiting the Sixth Annual Antique and Classic Boat Rendezvous at the Mystic Seaport Museum, in Mystic, Connecticut. The boats were pre-1940 powerboats and sailboats with oiled decks, shiny brass, and impeccable white hulls. A crowd of visitors, who paid $7.50 each, streamed along the dockside...

Poetry Golden Retriever by David Wagoner. Dew-soaked and bleary-eyed with the smells of the field...

Poetry The Supremes by Mark Jarman. In Ball's Market, after surfing till noon...